Marcel Winatschek

Gravy Rainbow

Disasteradio—the solo project of New Zealander Luke Buda—makes music that sounds like it was recorded inside a Game Boy left in the sun too long: wobbling and bright and faintly delirious. Gravy Rainbow hits that particular register where chiptune stops being a novelty and becomes something genuinely affecting. The melodies are too good to dismiss, the beats too precise to ignore, and the whole thing carries a warmth that the lo-fi aesthetic usually works against. Dance music for people who spent too much of their childhood in front of a television. I mean that as the highest compliment.